Monday, 8 January 2018

2017 Favourite Books, Films, Podcasts etc.

I've read some truly amazing books this year and it made me really want to write a post on them! Then I thought back over the brilliant films, TV shows and podcasts I've enjoyed this year and thought it would be fun to do a little roundup of my favourite things this year.

I'm rubbish at writing reviews, so this is just a list of my favourite things in 2017. Nearly all of these books/films etc did not come out in 2017, I'm just super late to the party.

I have no real aim of this list except it gave me great joy to reflect on my favourite things of the year and relive the enjoyment of reading/watching/consuming all these wonderful things, and it makes me excited for my books and films and podcasts in 2018! It's also a reminder to me of all the awesome books and films out there that I am yet to explore.So here we go!

Books I loved in 2017

I read 43 books in 2017 and these were my absolute favourites (follow me on Goodreads for the rest!). In no order except the order in which I read them:

The Easter Parade by Richard Yates

My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

How to be a Grown Up by Daisy Buchanan

The Other Mrs Walker by Mary Paulson-Ellis

Skippy Dies by Paul Murray

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strour

My Shitty Twenties by Emily Morris

The Gustav Sonata by Rose Tremain

The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero

I know this much is true by Wally Lamb

What I loved by Suri Hustvedt

Favourite films at the cinema in 2017

Phil and I have Cineworld Unlimited cards so we go to the cinema at least twice a month. These were my favourite "new" films in 2017. In no particular order:

La La Land

Manchester by the Sea

Hidden Figures

Hacksaw Ridge

Moonlight

Wonder Woman

The Disaster Artist

Baby Driver

Get Out

Dunkirk

War for the Planet of the Apes

It

Wonder

Battle of the Sexes

My favourite films I saw the first time in 2017 that I definitely should have seen before:

Phil has a list in his phone called "Films I'm embarrassed Charlotte hasn't seen". He is constantly educating me in all the films I never managed to watch growing up! Here are some of my favourite new-to-me films I watched in 2017:

The Exorcist

American Werewolf in London

The Birds

Annie Hall

Let the Right One In

Minority Report

The Room

Speed

Deadpool

Lars and the Real Girl

The best podcasts I discovered in 2017

I'm kind of addicted to downloading hundreds of podcasts every month and then I never listen to them all! Some of these were new in 2017, some were new-to-me, but these are the podcasts getting me through my long runs last year:

What page are you on?

The Guilty Feminist

Beautiful Anonymous

Made of Human

Hello Friend

And then what?

Sincerely X

Dirty John

TV shows I loved in 2017

Phil and I suck at watching TV shows - we still haven't watched the new season of Stranger Things and we've not caught up with Peaky Blinders yet, but these are the TV shows we did finish this year:

Mindhunter

The Handmaid's Tale

The US Office (we finally finished this after starting it over 2 years ago!)

The Night Of

The People vs. OJ Simpson

The recipe books I loved in 2017

I don't even want to count how many new recipes books I bought or received in 2017, but these are the ones that I keep using over and over: